Old Stag, 20 Bishop Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1822 | 1858 | STAG | |
| 1835 | ? | BEERHOUSE | |
| 1858 | 2021 | OLD STAG | |
| 2024 | STAG AND HEN | ||
In 1835 see the BEERHOUSE, Bishop Street.
Until 1858 it was referred to as just the STAG, until William Hill took over the license when it became the OLD STAG.
In 1982 it was 'instantly recognisable as a Mitchells and Butlers lounge bar created out of what was once a three-roomed pub.... there's an impressive dark wood surround and some genuine mirrors advertising Bass No.1 Barley Wine and Atkinsons'.
In 2010 the Old Stag was sold by Punch Taverns to the next door funeral directors, A. Pargetter & Son, and it reopened as a free house under new licensees, Clive Hunt and Paul Barrow. This struggled, though, especially with the closure of the nearby Royal Mail sorting office that same year.
Another opening was attempted in 2018 by Tony King, but was also short-lived.On Friday 8th November 2024 Paul Curtis reopened this pub as the STAG AND HEN. The stag is a male red deer in its prime, i.e. in its fifth year. Most of the signs refer to hunts, stag hunting having been a favourite royal sport in the past. Occasionally it is a heraldic reference. | |||
LICENSEES:1858 - 1863 William Hill 1868 - 1874 James Hopkins 1879 William J. Walker 1881 Joseph or Joshua Jackson 1886 William Hopkins 1890 - 1893 M. A. Hopkins 1894 - 1899 H. Barnett 1903 - 1905 James Stringer 1909 W. Barnett 1909 - 1932 Johnathan Hewitt 1933 - 1934 Arthur Maiden 1934 - 1936 Albert John Denny 1937 - 1938 W. F. Ryder 1939 - 1940 Frank James 1960 Neville Abel 1974 - 1983 Larry Wynne 1992 - 1993 Jim Holton (former Sky Blues and Scottish international footballer, died 4th Oct 1993, aged only 42) 2010 - 2018 Clive Hunt and Paul Barrow 2018 Tony King | |||
OWNERS:to 2010 Punch Taverns 2010 - A Pargetter & Sons | |||
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